3 years ago today, we witnessed the culmination of 75 years of occupation, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, its consequences. To understand October 7, we must understand the material conditions that produced it.

#NY10 Protesters shout “fuck Brad Lander” at October 7 vigil Video credit: @luketress

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RIGHT NOW: Zohran Mamdani stands on the Israeli side of an October 7 vigil while Palestinian organizers and supporters of Palestinian liberation directly protest him. Another politician at the vigil is Brad Lander, who increased NYC pension holdings in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, as their weapons were used to annihilate Palestinians at the height of the Gaza genocide. Meanwhile, students across NYC are walking out of classrooms demanding an end to the city’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Mamdani campaigned on solidarity with Palestine. Now the movement is confronting him over the gap between that solidarity and his political decisions. This is not a hypothetical contradiction or a disagreement over rhetoric. It is a confrontation over where political power is being exercised, whose demands are being accommodated, and whose are being dismissed. Solidarity is measured by what you do with power, not what you say to obtain it. Video via @WOLPalestine @Cuny4P

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No intelligent person can look at satellite images of Gaza and say it’s not a genocide.

A single secular state with equal rights for Arabs and Jews is not "insane"

I’m phone banking for GOP candidates in Texas. Speaking to man in his 60s. He cannot stand Paxton. And then he says, “I’ll vote for a morally corrupt person every single time over a commie.” And that tells me the 3rd party ads are working. #txsen

It’s always “Hamas attacked my kibbutz” and never “Why is my kibbutz strategically located alongside other settlements in such a way that we effectively aid in the enclosure of a concentration camp?”

It’s always “Hamas attacked my kibbutz” and never “Why is my kibbutz strategically located alongside other settlements in such a way that we effectively aid in the enclosure of a concentration camp?”

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss. The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes. Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment. To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

Three years ago: the absolute peak of Palestinian culture and history.